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mircea_popescu: ;;title
mircea_popescu: heh, some people don't have wives (tho not married but only regarding themselves as such)
mircea_popescu: "Patrick's mother has sacrificed a very significant amount of money helping him fight his current liquidation. "
mircea_popescu: i need a shortcut for that.
mircea_popescu: totally.
mircea_popescu: totally.
mircea_popescu: personally i thought that's the best part.
mircea_popescu: ", it scares me how much of a witch hunt is going on for MtGox and I wonder if MtGox is undergoing the same treatment that the Bitcoinica Consultancy received and if those criticizing MtGox are simply doing the bidding of Tihan Seale and his friends."
mircea_popescu: this guy ?
mircea_popescu: http://court-record-report.com/record/1319343/2011TR003664
mircea_popescu: for the chan's amusement : mpoe-pr hath spoken. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=209362.msg2193455#msg2193455
mircea_popescu: who's sean ?
mircea_popescu: whp
mircea_popescu: there is something to be said for getting people hungry enough. they'll swallow anything
mircea_popescu: which showed only 3 hours late or some shit
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i recall during the london failference that they ended up praising the great catered food
mircea_popescu: nop
mircea_popescu: anyway, i'm still enjoying the delightful bitcoinica scamsultancy cadaver washing in unicorn tears megapost.
mircea_popescu: https://twitter.com/Mircea_Popescu/status/335842373357694978
mircea_popescu: win. they own unregistered "trademarks"
mircea_popescu: JevTrade, JevTrade logo, and all other trademarks, whether registered or unregistered, are the property of Jevons, Inc. and its affiliates.
mircea_popescu: so his presumption is that anyone mining with the same extra-nonce is the same person. this is a reasonably weak assumption.
mircea_popescu: interesting article.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform satoshi possibly has a decent chunk of change, but in no event would it be 1mn
mircea_popescu: wait what ?
mircea_popescu: not bad j.
mircea_popescu: (this, of course, if you mean cash)
mircea_popescu: there never was one to date afaik, and it's getting progressively harder.
mircea_popescu: i doubt there's going to ever be a btc millionaire.
mircea_popescu: not in 2013.
mircea_popescu: like oral sex. fucking a broad in the mouth was bragging rights in 1913
mircea_popescu: it doesn't count if you do it late.
mircea_popescu: but anyway.
mircea_popescu: who have never seen a 100 bill.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it only does in the retard land of vice interns
mircea_popescu: not public knowledge afaik.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile they fucked it up.
mircea_popescu: that was a while ago.
mircea_popescu: until recently we had no ipads.
mircea_popescu: the rest need to be gives something to do with their time.
mircea_popescu: the people who could be doing something useful already are.
mircea_popescu: they'll just grow up to be bureaucrats because there's nothing of practical use they can do with their time.
mircea_popescu: i would say there's exactly zero difference between your average bureaucrat and your average bitcoinite, such as https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=209159.msg2193424#msg2193424
mircea_popescu: i think jurov has it.
mircea_popescu: or else mean and marginalized.
mircea_popescu: all bureaucrats i met are either failures, boring and evil
mircea_popescu: ya well... don't trust the papers so much
mircea_popescu: no lol, ofmean people.
mircea_popescu: why, you have examples ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i was commenting about how ppl will "invest" in anything just as long as itwon't work.
mircea_popescu: yeah.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla so who is bitcoinomics ?
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: awww where is tortilla!
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: BitHub you take jurov's bet at 1btc ?
mircea_popescu: o hihi
mircea_popescu: alloh
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: Scrat hm ?
mircea_popescu: Scrat not bad coinroll.
mircea_popescu: somebody should be collecting/documenting all this future gold.
mircea_popescu: summary ?
mircea_popescu: pretty much the only way they're going to come to their senses.
mircea_popescu: i tjhink our amerikanski friends are in for some massive heaping of humiliation
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: what in the actual fuck are we doing here ?!
mircea_popescu: plus the failed american exchange, which is pretty much going to jail later this year
mircea_popescu: so basically this is a conference of the failed american asic maker, which got beat to market by two chinese and possibly a russian corp
mircea_popescu: asicminer isn't there, avalon isn't there, bitfury isn't there ?
mircea_popescu: so let me get something straight about this conference thing.
mircea_popescu: this one is the first that acvtuyally makes sense.
mircea_popescu: of all the uses for a smartphone ui've seen so far
mircea_popescu: this is actually a pretty cool idea.
mircea_popescu: http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2013/05/14/new-app-lets-you-boycott-koch-brothers-monsanto-and-more-by-scanning-your-shopping-cart/
mircea_popescu: yeah.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves are you discussing the matter with truffles ?
mircea_popescu: because we're all rebelious 16 year olds who ran away from home to be with cartman's bitcoin pirates.
mircea_popescu: there's a lot of confusing going on. hunkering down and satisfying some standards is "sucking cock",
mircea_popescu: nobody fails cause they're mean and evil. people fail because they're brash, "very motivated" and cheeky/disobedient.
mircea_popescu: and pretty much all the future failures too, for that matter.
mircea_popescu: hasking, amazingrando, gigavps, you name it.
mircea_popescu: pretty much all the historical failures of bitcoin were nice guys
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i tell you something : other than a little too prideful for their own good (which comes with youth)
mircea_popescu: if pure profit that's ~30 btc sort of thing
mircea_popescu: Also we apologize for the lack of communication. We have been really hard at work, gearing up for the convention, and catching up on all of our outstanding orders.
mircea_popescu: The profits of the Bitcoin 2013 sale will be included in this months dividend payout!
mircea_popescu: We will be have 200 shirts at hand with us ($4,000 in inventory) available for sale.
mircea_popescu: i sorta wish i had went to the tortilla node thing
mircea_popescu: i imagine it's why people went
mircea_popescu: is it more like an expo thing ?
mircea_popescu: but this aside : i thought this is a conference thing
mircea_popescu: trap ?!
mircea_popescu: o may gawd
mircea_popescu: don't forget the sharpie.
mircea_popescu: we got enough headless chickens on speed running around
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves if it's all the same to you i'd much rather very motivated 20somethings don't "educate" anyone.
mircea_popescu: well nobody holdin' a gun to your head :D
mircea_popescu: furuknap might be a good idea.
mircea_popescu: this is why these people pretty much limit themselves to the forum